"The World's Worst Movie" is bigger than ever

When Greg Sestero was 24, he played one of the lead roles in his friend Tommy Wiseau's film. Wiseau acted as director, screenwriter, producer, protagonist and sole financier for the film, which had a final note of approximately $ 6 million.

Given the film's remarkable lack of professionalism and talent, Greg Sestero was convinced that no one would see it.

-After the recordings, I lived in Europe, worked a bit as a model and in 2008 I got a phone call from a reporter on Entertainment weekly who had seen The Room and fell in love with it. He told me that it had celebrity fans and that it was used as teaching material at the university, he tells Culture News.

Five years after the movie The Room had its premiere, it had thus achieved cult status and received the epithet "the bad films Citizen Kane". In addition to a plethora of unlikely replicas ("Anyway, how's your sex life?"), The author Tommy Wiseau himself is fascinating.

-Other bad movies may have a lousy element, poor direction or half-script, but here it is a mixture of everything. It will be fascinating, it will be like a trip into his (Wiseau's) soul, ”says Caroline Dickson, in Tommy Wiseau's Swedish fanclub.

15 years after the premiere, The Room is more up-to-date than ever. Fan shows continue to sell out worldwide, and James Franco's new movie The disaster artist - which portrays the recordings of The Room - is Oscar nominated in the best script category by model.

The publisher is Greg Sestero's book The Disaster Artist, which he wrote in 2012. By that time, a number of questions had been raised about the mysterious person of Tommy Wiseau. Can he really, as he claims, come from American New Orleans despite a clear Eastern European break? How did he get the money together to make The Room? How old is he? Some clues, but no clear answers, are given in the book.

- He was okay with me writing the book and in the end he said he accepts it to 45 percent. For me, it got everything moving, for example, James Franco had not seen The Room before, says Greg Sestero.

Something Tommy Wiseau, however, is not "okay with" is the documentary film Room full of spoons, by Canadian filmmaker and The Room admirer Rick Harper.

Harper began making his documentary with Wiseau's blessing, but in early 2017 he sought a court injunction that would prevent the film from being shown, as Wiseau believed it was infringing on his copyright.

Harper claims to have traced Tommy Wiseau's birthplace and origin, something Wiseau himself did not want to go out with.

However, at the end of last year the presentation was lifted and the film can now be shown, but no premiere date has been set yet. Greg Sestero does not have much to say about Rick Harper's film, but still believes that show stones should remain untouched when it comes to Tommy Wiseau and The Room.

"I think you can keep some of the mystery alive," he says.